A 48-year-old man has appeared in court charged over a stabbing in Dublin's south inner city yesterday morning.

It’s once-in-a-blue-moon stuff; the senior county double.

‘Corky’ Carroll certainly had an afternoon to savour at yesterday’s well-attended second session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point at Farrangalway for he partnered three winners.

JIMMY Mangan’s Rudi Trucker indicated that he’s set for another productive hunter chase campaign this season by sluicing home in the lady riders open at yesterday’s North Tipperary Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Nenagh, the only hunt racing fixture to take place over the weekend.

THERE has been much talk recently that Bertie Ahern would be our ideal next president.

TONY MARTIN abandoned any thoughts of going to Galway with Pires, after his well-backed five-year-old had won the Londis Close To You Novice Hurdle at the concluding stage of a very successful Killarney Festival yesterday.

TRAINER Adrian Maguire ran three horses at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point at Kilpatrick and remarkably the former Gold Cup winning jockey went away with three winners.

PUBLICANS and the gardaí have teamed up in the south-east in a bid to stamp out under-age drinking as well as drug misuse across Tipperary.

A PETITION has been signed by 5,000 people in support of the development of two major supermarkets that would create hundreds of jobs in Tipperary.

ON Wednesday, December 15, I received my army pension cheque and a note telling me I had received a 2% increase. That amounted to six cent a day. To qualify for this pension, I had to do service of 21 years.

David Casey has lost his appeal over the two-day ban he received at Thurles last Thursday.